For once I am going to offer a personal perspective. And while my opinion may be somewhat simplistic and pedestrian, I can't tell if this is supposed to be a bold new frontier of 'Art' or simply a Rorschach test disguised as art. Even when it is free here I think I wasted my time downloading it. But hey, decide for yourself.

“...an open novel, for you to project your mind into. Every page is a stimulating field for your imagination...”

The images are raw scans of original pages made using cheap acrylic paint on sheets of ordinary office paper. The pages were made over a period of 4 or 5 years. It took a few weeks to select which hundred to assemble into this book, and a few more weeks to decide on which order to put the pages.

Most of the marks were made using a technique known as decalcomania. You spread ink or paint on a surface, then print off that surface, which results in chaotic, organic, blotty shapes. The Surrealist artist Oscar Domínguez invented this technique in 1936. Max Ernst made several paintings which used decalcomania along with other techniques.

Among other places, Tim Gaze is proud of the work published in Abstract Comics: The Anthology, VLAK 1, noology & 100 Scenes. He lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.